Night on Earth

Today's continuation of the series about landscape architecture invites you to venture over and check out three of the top firms in landscape architecture: Margie Ruddick Landscape, Olin Partnership, and Field Operations. Part of what I like so much about landscape architecture as opposed to the (plain) architecture is that landscape architecture is not tainted with the crazy need to prove its value via wild avant-garde designs that make buildings unnecessarily expensive or plain old eyesores. (Which is not to say that all crazy architecture is bad; however, most of it is; I do like the pickle building -- Londoners apparently call it the Gherkin, because its shaped like a pickle planted in the ground and has a vaguely greenish hue at night -- in London, though I obviously haven't seen it in person).

If you don't feel like exploring for yourself, here's an image from a project that I like at each firm:

Field Operations: Bridesburg Redevelopment Plan, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Margie Ruddick: Queens Plaza, Long Island City, New York

Olin Partnership: Vila Olimpica, Barcelona, Spain